shipitfish | Live Blog Main Event, 2006, Hour 1 (Reply)

17:57 EDT: Cunningham is playing from the SB in a battle of the blinds. Crazy flop of AKQ rainbow. Cunningham bets and is called by Binger. KTo for Binger wins it.

17:55 EDT: Why the hell, BTW, are they talking to Jefferey, Harrah's head of the WSoP , who is a total idiot about poker? Stupid sports entertainment people.

Meanwhile, WEEE!!! Kim finally got them to fold preflop!

17:53 EDT: Gold made it $500k, and Lee has called. Flop is J 6 7 . Checked around, 5 on the turn. Gold bets out the size of the pot (around $1million).

Gordon notes that Gold doesn't look happy, but Lee gives it up. Gordon is arguing that Lee must be there, but I don't know if I agree necessarily, but he's probably right.

17:48 EDT: Wow! Gordon has it right. They are really playing fast for the blind structure they have. They are raise and reraising a lot. I wonder if the amateurs have just decided a Kill Phil strategy is the way to go?

17:42 EDT:

Douglas Kim just raised from the button and got reraised but Butler. Kim is so frustrated, but it's really obvious is making plays, and he's basically telling the table that. Anyone who has enough guts to make a big reraise out of position once and a while is going to move in.

Phil Gordon was right; he said too much. A-9-3 rainbow. Butler just moved in on Kim. He didn't have more than a pot-sized bet anyway, but it's obvious that even if Kim has an A it's weak, so Butler should make the move with almost anything, and it's no surprise Kim showboated for a while then folded.

17:42 EDT: Very odd. Why did Doug Kim move in on Gold on that river when it came a queen? (Board was J-7-2-5-Q; minor bet on the flop.) Gold can bust him, so why do that?

17:38 EDT: Jamie Gold limped and Dan Nassif made it to $700,000 on the button. Gold just called, but Nassif had less than a million behind. There was no reason he should have not moved all in there. Turns out he had AKo, Gold had deuces, checked dark, flopped a set, and Nassif moved it in as a huge underdog.

This play seems very amateur-ish to me. The only way I think you can do that is if you have aces or kings and want to get a little more value. But with AK, you just have to put it in. Nassif seemed happy and relived almost when it was done. he was clearly happy to get the million and a half.

17:36 EDT: I have decided to live-blog the main event table, since I ordered it on pay-per-view and left work early to watch. I'll make a new, fresh post each hour, and put updates at the top and a horizontal rule before each change.